Saturday
"We've had it with baby boomer politics. We've had it with coteries and courts, dens and sofas. But if we are fed up with that private politics, we are also tired of the public face of politics. We are told that modern politics is about TV studios: that poisonous truth may be about to become untrue. Westminster and Whitehall might yet make a come-back, as bastions of decently-argued policy and its delivery. This is a switch away from post-60s trends. But it needn’t be a backward step to snobbery and stuffiness."
I hope he is right, although I doubt that Westminster and Whitehall have ever achieved a high point of "decently argued policy and its delivery". Rose-tinted spectacles, and all that.
Congratulations on the elections! Cameron may be a bit of a nanny, but at least that's not his party's core platform (I would hope)..
And rousting Red Ken: Brilliant! Too bad Giuliani wasn't running, he could bring a few plungers along and put riffraff and miscreants in their place..
Posted by Dr. Kenneth Noisewater at May 3, 2008 03:35 PM
When this post first appeared the other day, I sat munching my dinner and composing a pointed comment on North's use of the phrase 'Permanent psuedo dissidence' but when I sat down at the laptop to enter the comment, the post had disappeared.
So, you dodged one there.
So instead, here's a boomer, ol' PJ himself, giving a commencement address in which he apologises for his generation, gives some very sound advice, and praises the tenth commandment.
(via Gaius at Blue Crab Boulevard)
Posted by Kevin B at May 4, 2008 05:48 PM
Kevin, thanks for the link to PJ's commencement address. It's worth keeping.
Posted by Laird at May 5, 2008 12:21 AM
